This page will give you
some ideas on
how to design water
seaweed for your planet.
Begin by thinking about
the environment.
Where will your
seaweed live?
1.
Choose the setting for
your aquatic community.
Go to Water
Communities in the
biome section. Discuss the
different environments with
the other members of your
group. Decide if you are going
to concentrate on a specific
environment or spread out
to several different ones.
Try to figure out what sorts
of plants you might want to
develop.
2.
Read the page on Differences
Between Land Plants and
Seaweeds.
3.
Read the page on Evolution.
4.
Discuss what you have learned
with your group.
5.
Go to the Helpful Web Sites:
gather more information and
ideas.
6.
Discuss with your group again.
7.
Start sketching out your organisms.
Your
sketches should include
(in sketches or pictures):
a
sketch of the unicellular
organism that you started
with
a
sketch of a clump of cells
evolving into a multicellular
seaweed
a sketch of your proto-seaweed
Diversify
your seaweed out into three
niches
Check
Designing
and Diversifying Your
Water Plants
You
may want to check my plant
development in Shalimar.
Save
your working sketches. You
will probably need them
for chapter 7.
8.
Check the Rubric for Chapter
5 for Making Web Pages
Check the Rubric for Chapter
5 for PowerPoint
9.
Write a description of your
seaweed, explaining your
illustrations as outlined
in the Rubric page.
Your
description should include
the
environment of your
seaweed
the
height of seaweed
any
special adaptations
how
does the seaweed reproduce?
10.
The page coordinator should
put all this together, adding
a description of the plant
community.
Check
the Page
Coordinator Rubric for
Web Pages here.
Check
the Page
Coordinator Rubric for
PowerPoint here..
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